1. Pole lot of fun

When is exercise really fun? When it’s ‘sexercise’. Join City Woman on her quest to find fun and flirty fitness sessions to spice up your regime

2. Why Laura turns the room blue

Midsomer Murders actress Laura Howard is currently playing five different roles at The Haymarket in Basingstoke.

3. W. (15)

Oliver Stone’s latest political biopic is highly unusual.

4. Star misses out on Mercury prize

Former Reading schoolgirl Laura Marling lost out on the Nationwide Mercury Prize to Manchester five-piece Elbow.

5. Kindertransport at the Progress Theatre

6. Cabbies delighted at study go-ahead

Taxi drivers were celebrating after the council agreed to look into limiting the number of licensed cabs in the borough.

7. Do you know where your children are?

Parents are being asked to help police combat underage drinking by asking their teenagers what they are doing in evenings and weekends.

8. Death Race

British tough guy Jason Statham stars as Jensen Ames – a former stock car racing champion who is framed for murder when his wife Suzy (Janaya Stephens) is brutally killed.

9. L’amours angels. Xensations, Friar Street

Us angels were back in full flight as we floated into Xensations.

10. Food for thought

With children back at school, students heading back to campus and adult courses kicking off, September must surely be the most trying month for our family’s brains.